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Climate Change Television in the 1970s: Visualisation and the Problem of the Future

Climate Change Television in the 1970s: Visualisation and the Problem of the Future

by Melanie | Dec 19, 2025 | case studies

By 1988 the idea that the climate was warming due to carbon emissions was widely reported internationally and dubbed the “greenhouse effect.” This is the same year the United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a major milestone....
The Pastoral Station as an Important Site of Australian Film History

The Pastoral Station as an Important Site of Australian Film History

by Melanie | Dec 19, 2025 | case studies

Essentially large farming properties associated with livestock raising, pastoral stations are very common in Australia’s colonial history as sites of early settler living, Indigenous dispossession, and agricultural management. In addition, the station has featured...
The Great Barrier Reef and the Tropical North:Tourist Film from Edenic Scene to Precarity

The Great Barrier Reef and the Tropical North:Tourist Film from Edenic Scene to Precarity

by Melanie | Dec 19, 2025 | case studies

Australia’s tropical north, including the Great Barrier Reef, is both a physical place and a zone of the imagination. The stories and images crafted and deployed in the interests of tourism promotion have been crucial in shaping the idea of the tropical north,...

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This research was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP190101178).

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This research was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP190101178).

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